The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 37
The treasurer took down the tent, reduced it to its first size, brought it and put it into the prince’s hands.
Who acts: treasurer · What happens: take down, reduce, bring, put · To what, where: tent, treasurer, first size, hands
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasurer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 treasurer | det |
| 2 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tent | det |
| 6 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reduced | punct |
| 8 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reduced | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 size | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 size | nmod:poss |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 size | amod |
| 13 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reduced | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brought | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 hands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hands | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 prince | case |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | past | the treasurer | the tent | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reduce | past | the treasurer not said here | treasurer | to treasurer's first size goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Patient to size=Goal | |||
| 3 | bring | past | treasurer | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | treasurer | the prince's hands | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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